Thoughts from, and the lives of a Canadian and a Brit living in Southern England.

Tag Archives: Snow

For the Winter Tyre Naysayers

For the winter tyre naysayers that say they don’t make a difference, this is a shot of the car park just before church this morning. For those who don’t know St James’ it sits on top of a hill, at probably the highest point in the village. The line up of cars are all 4×4′sContinue Reading

Dreaming of a White Christmas?

This year was the first white christmas I have ever experienced. Looking around the area things all looked pretty much like your average greetings card picture (or the atypical English winter depicted in The Holiday), so we got some nice pictures of the church thanks to Richard Owen who brought his camera along with hisContinue Reading

A Snowy Friday Morning in Alberta

I still haven’t got around to doing my pictures, but Beth has uploaded a couple of short clips she filmed whilst we were driving from Jasper back to the airport in Edmonton on Friday morning. In Jasper itself there was only a dusting of snow on the cars and rooftops – this was what greetedContinue Reading

Two Weeks Later

So after the brief snow we got for Easter, and the temperature reaching the dizzy heights of 18 ÌŠC this last week, on Sunday morning we awoke to this… April Snow from Richard Peat on Vimeo. By the time we had to head up to St James, the temperature had risen slightly and on theContinue Reading

Flickr Stats Clears Up a Mystery

Although by making use of internet search tools I can track some usage of my pictures on Flickr – for example I have a saved technorati search that looks for sites referencing my Flickr URL that is common across all public pictures – compared to the level of statistics I can get for visits toContinue Reading